The Energy Assessor is not responsible for establishing the official authorised Planning Use Class of aparticular building. However, if Assessors are provided with the authorised Planning Use Class from asuitable source, then this should be entered as the ‘Building Type’ under the building ‘General Details’ dataentry form. Otherwise, the Building Type will be based on the Assessor’s visual assessment of the buildingon the day of inspection.
In both cases, the Assessor is at liberty to alter the Building Type on a zone by zone basis as necessary, inorder to model the activity types as seen.
The Assessor should as a matter of course, record and be able to provide evidence for the selection of themain building type chosen and any subsequent changes made to the building type at zone level.
Mike Gordon
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